Faculty Support Page

As a result of Covid-19 and to ensure the safety of our students and faculty, we must move quickly to online modality. We acknowledge that both student and instructor may feel anxiety about moving into this new realm, but we will go through this journey together.

We ask that you enter this process with an open mind. As we try to address every possible scenario, we know that there will be some things that we might have missed, do not go as planned, or create frustration. This will challenge all of us, however, we are confident that together, we will make this a successful transition.

Please bookmark this page. We will provide updates as we continue on this journey.

The Tutoring Committee has been working diligently with St. Augustine College tutors to ensure tutors continue to provide effective on-line tutoring. Please know we are there to support students.

There are different types of tutoring arrangements, class-specific, student specific, writing, math, and content-specific to meet everyone’s needs. Once a tutoring session is scheduled, the tutor will send a go-to-meeting invitation to the student(s) for the tutoring session.

For some class rooms in which instructors have made themselves available to tutor their students, students will continue to maintain contact with their instructors directly. Instructor/Tutors please provide information with your students regarding how to make appointments with you for class.

Student/Tutor Semester Long Arrangements

For students who have individual ongoing tutoring with one tutor, these arrangements remain in place. Tutors have been contacting these students to ensure continuity of services in the last couple of weeks. If a student has not heard from his or her tutor, please contact the Tutoring Center Director at TutoringCenterDirector@staugustine.edu and request assistance.

Topic and Program Specific Needs

For program and topic-specific tutoring, a Tutoring Schedule has been developed and can be accessed through the Tutoring Schedule link. The following contacts have been identified and students can reach out to them directly to schedule tutoring:

For students with specific content needs not currently addressed above, the primary contact for tutoring needs is the Tutoring Director: TutoringCenterDirector@staugustine.edu These requests can also be made by students, advisors, chairs, or instructors.

Please continue to use tutoring to strengthen your classrooms, and if you have any increasing needs that you see as a result of the online learning, please talk to your Chair and request tutoring support or send a note to TutoringCenterDirector@staugustine.edu and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

The University of Illinois Springfield is a leader in online education. The UIS ION Professional eLearning Program provides professional development to support effective practice and innovation of online teaching.

Many institutions don’t have all the resources in place that they need. We want to help universities, colleges and schools through this crisis. The ION website provides tools that will help instructors transition to remote teaching. Under the Resources tab on the ION webpage, there are free tutorials for teachers to learn everything they need to be successful.